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Harapan one-year report card & why they'll be one-term gomen
April 15, 2019 at 3:55 pm 121 comments
The anti-Najib, 1MDB-busting paper The Edge is circulating an online survey reviewing Harapan's Year One performance. I'm responding below to their questionaire.
Questions 1-5
What's the difference between Mahathirism 1.0 and Mahathirism 2.0?
Book your Proton FlyingCar™ quick. The waiting list is long.
Regime change now!
Only sado-masochists would think of voting for Harapan. A vote for Harapan = inflicting self-punishment, esp. in taxation on the middle class.
Cat food costs more under Guan Eng's SST regime than Najib's GST previously.
It could also be due to Malaysia's weak ringgit against the baht (Thailand has a developed fishing industry and some brands are imported from our northern neighbour) as well as higher transportation costs because fuel is no cheaper.
Questions 6-10
See last Stick Figure in poster below. Unlike Dapsters, I don't drink piss believing it to be holy water.
Since Pakatan Haprak took over, the one area showing greatest improvement is Malay Unity. (This answer, however, is not listed among the survey's multiple-choice reply options.)
Mahathir has exceeded my expectations in his dictatorial tendencies. Falling below expectation is Hannah Yeoh who's only No.2 behind champion Syed Saddiq in the matter of Jilat Bontot Bos.
"Malaysia's future" … ur optimistic or pessimistic?
Speaking of Hannah: If only she were a bit more honest, she would not have shut down the Dapster young generation weighing whether to emigrate – ref. her old tweet below – just because she herself is a failed Australia-PR applicant.
The pollsters behind this survey appear to agree that DAP's "colour blind" rhetoric is complete bollocks. If race doesn't matter, why bother to ask?
To see questions 11-12, go to https://www.research.net/r/OneYearReportCard
The most important issue is Cost of Living and its corollary, Inflation.
My jaw invariably drops whenever I walk down the supermarket aisles. e.g. A regular size (400ml) bottle of Himalaya – tagged above at RM32.84 – is a market brand sold everywhere and not a hair salon product. Imagine paying RM33 for shampoo in New Malaysia.
Granted there are more economical brands than Himalaya and Joy but I already shop at the most budget-conscious grocery chain there is, Speedmart 99.
The normal price for Joy 500ml (below) is RM6.95 according to Tesco e-shop. O joy! How long will satisfaction with Harapan last?
From my grocery bag this week, 96 sen for two small Holland onions. I only cook single-person meals, so I don't buy a lot.
The other day, I paid 55 sen for a scoop of beansprouts at the leftovers shop, i.e. fresh food items available in the afternoon that are collected unsold from the morning wet market. The 55-sen taugeh portion was just enough for me to fry myself a plate of char koay teow.
Meanwhile in the supermarkets, offer items fly off the shelves before you can count to 10 – see below.
The Ayam brand promo price last October was RM5.79. Its normal price then was RM5.90 — a savings of 11 sen. Are we supposed to be thrilled at the measly reduction? Err, yes apparently.
Currently the same Tuna Chunks in Olive Oil – pix above – retails @ RM6.25 at Lazada, RM6.46 at Aeon, RM6.50 at Jaya Grocer, RM6.50 at Mydin (results from online search). So roughly, the cash & carry price for this Ayam 150g tin of tuna has increased 60 sen from its RM5.90 price six months ago.
While waiting my turn at the price checker machine, I exchanged a few friendly words with a Malay youth who was deciding whether or not he wanted to buy a bottle of cooking oil. I asked him if he is a student since he was carefully tabulating his grocery bill total using the calculator on his mobile. He replied he was already working.
Each grocery shopping trip I must draw a sharp breath – this happens often – because prices go up every five weeks or so for essential foods. Take Maggi.
The mee-in-cup price is RM1.79 and mee-in-bowl price is RM3.09 (Tesco). Imagine, it'll cost you RM3.10 to cook instant Maggi Mi at home and this is plain noodles without any additional ingredients.
Nowadays shoppers are putting less stuff in their grocery carts. This can be observed when you're queuing up at the check-out counter.
Harapan will assuredly lose GE15 unless the government can get a grip on harga barang naik.
How would you answer the survey?
READERS are also welcome to leave a comment recording the prices of your must-have things, and we can come back to this page next year to see how much UBAH we've all enjoyed.
Entry filed under: #NotMyGomen. Tags: harga barang naik.
121 Comments Add your own
i am optimistic and i will give PH another term to prove their worth….
For now, i am happy with
1. NO or very minimal corruption
2. MRT2 reduced 5.2bil
3. ECRL reduced 21bil
4. B40 asisstance programmes
5. MYpass 100
I am sure there are others who does more tracking on PH than me.
PH is certainly a cleaner coalition than BN.
Sorry no more votes to PH.
problem now is many of the past regime supporters still work in the gaverment, turning away people who look for helps especially the most discirminated indians, if go goverment all sort of things done by the old reime supports not to help and say it is "kencing" promise. also price of goods more parallel importers like what jokowi do in indonesia to keep price down. many importers are old regime peeople. like from MCA
I almost voted for PH in the last GE. But looking at the situation after PH took over, I would certainly not vote for PH in the next GE. PH not only failed, but failed MISERABLY
I am prepared to give that old roti canai fakir another 22 years to get things right (even if it is for himself, family, and cronies).
My money is on it won't be all that long he comes face to face with old Niutou and Mamian.
As much as he is the DAP dei ty, he will fail, flop like the next Proton!
If he is not descending to the Netherworld on a fakir's rope through the clouds, may he be granted a ride on the magic carpet – at least that works better than the next national "car" on one whore'spower.
Free ticket for the old and new dictator from the bucket shop.
May we kick off into a new genuine new baru baru Malaysia.
Keep praying guys!
No reason canned tuna/sardine, Ayam or otherwise should be so expensive in Malaysia.
Like corned beef and baked beans, it is a luxury for the poor – all while, in the West, mostly the poor and students eat those stuff.
We can't introduce salad vegetables to those who love stuffing their faces here, and especially to the obese. Salad vegetables are unreasonably expensive.
I know olive oil, excellent for salads, is expensive – and love-our-palm-oil is no substitute.
When the price of the "poor man's fare" ie. canned tuna/sardines, corned beef, baked beans go up, western gomens get nervous.
But when PH cannot keep prices down, we still get their supporter monkeys trusting that magic Najib/1MDB mantra, give PH gomen more years to keep prices up, give them a chance…
Other than closing down cafes etc because of their overzealous smoking ban, PH should tax sugar, salt and junk snacks heavily, our monkeys do eat those in massive quantities.
A few years down the road we will get more and more in the demography for the grossly obese, the diabetics, those hit by heart diseases, etc etc. that will strain our health services – and taxpayers' pockets!
That said, it would be great advertising for PH if those desperate to charm, like Hippo Hannah, set examples of themselves for the public to follow, by reducing their size by at least two third.
Weight reduction needs will. Strong will.
To be religious, you don't need will at all – you just keep deluding yourself and others you are religious – and keep making a great show of that.
Instead of reciting "I am G*d-fearing", recite "I look like a no class coolie kway teow frying scrubber, I MUST shed weight massively!"
It is like a good looking shop assistant, she talks to you, and you end up buying whatever… Would you trust a dentist with bad teeth?
Same with a religion, you see an attractive soul, and you see a deity loving the pusher of the religion, turns her into an angel, you won't think why the fcuk her "G*d" has made her so fcuking ugly! Amen.
"No reason canned tuna/sardine, Ayam or otherwise should be so expensive in Malaysia."
One reason why a can of tuna costs so much today is this:-
I.E. the ringgit which was at RM2.98 to the U.S. dollar in May 2013 is RM4.115 to the U.S. dollar today.
The ringgit strengthened to RM3.87 to the U.S. dollar on 7 April 2018 and has weakened since.
Even if the tuna is canned in Malaysia, the inputs, including perhaps the tuna as well are most likely imported and must be paid for in U.S. dollars and a weaker ringgit means higher prices in ringgit on the shelves.
The only people who benefit from a weaker ringgit are companies which export most of their products from Malaysia and are more competitive on price in U.S. dollars or earn more in ringgit terms.
This is why the share prices of listed companies which mostly sell into the overseas market rise and the ringgit weakens, since their quarterly and annual financial statements are quoted in ringgit.
However, we the consumers pay higher prices, especially for goods with high imported inputs or for imported goods and Malaysia imports even vegetables and fruits from China and other countries.
Another index to look at is the U.S. Dollar Currency Index (DXY):-
In the past, I had observed that the ringgit weakens with respect to the U.S. dollar as the dollar strengthens on the DXY and the ringgit strengthens when the dollar weakens.
However, more recently, this linkage has ceased, with the U.S. dollar going sideways on the DXY, whilst the ringgit weakens.
Earlier, the strength of the ringgit corresponded somewhat to the price of Brent Crude but today with Brent having risen to US$71.18 per barrel, whilst the ringgit has weakened.
Perhaps out dear Finance Minister and Economic Affairs Minister can explain why our ringgit is so weak and what they hope to do to strengthen it.
Ah yes! Mahathir had suggested the re-introduction of a ringgit peg to prevent speculators from manipulating it.
I think it is simpler to ask why things that are relatively cheap abroad (except sometimes, tuna) can be so expensive here.
We do not need to import fruits and vegetables from China or anywhere else. We can cultivate quite a number of those ourselves, even plant our own rice. But why aren't we?
At one time or another countries like Singapore had campaigns asking consumers to eat more local (Malaysian!) fruits. We should encourage farmers (and others!) to grow as much food as possible (they can charge high prices too, they can export, they can take advantage of exchange rates!)
Are we not unusually fascinated by oil palm?
Are we not like some of those African countries in the old days, grew one great cash crop, find themselves having to, eg. eat coffee three meals a day when foreign buyers screwed them over price and refused to buy, because they don't grow anything else?
Have we got to love-our-palm-oil to death because we are nothing else other than endless lifetime supply of palm oil?
China is refusing to buy, and there is nothing Theresa Love-Our-Palm-Oil "sassy" old hen, nor the DAP deity Robert Kuok can do about it!
Chinese fruits and vegetables often cost less in Europe than here. Why is that? Often it has very little to do with exchange rates, more to do with competition, price sensitive, and more politically active/aware consumers. That means others are not docile and politicians and shops cannot piss about with them with any price movement.
China buys a lot of its commodities by barter. It even exports many of what it bartered, think those colourful packages of cashew, macadamia nuts, etc that are very expensive here, think even re-processed cuttlefish and jellyfish – China buys those from us cheap, then sell lovely little packages of those back to us expensive, talk about fcuking mugs (not them!)
Exchange rates have little to do with what a seller charges. An iPhone whatever has a mark up of around 1,000%, the Chinese factory gets only a few tens of dollars per phone, the poor worker gets peanuts, and you pay through your snout!
So why doesn't Apple sell its phones for less, add the difference in exchange rates, and the shops can still sell the phones at low prices. That is what the Chinese mobile phone companies do – and that is why and how Apple can be wiped off the market.
I spend a lot of time each day looking at charts, many about currencies… they tell me little about what sellers should charge for their goods. For that, maybe Karl Marx explains better.
We don't need to trouble ourselves that much about exchange rates, we just need to get folks out to the fields, plant their own food. I grow many of my own food, it is great fun, good exercise, good sense,I get quality I know, I get quantity… I let folks use empty land I have, I "tax" them by asking a quantity of produce I circulate among charities. I enjoy doing all that, I don't hinge my life and welfare on any exchange rate, a shop lectures me about exchange rate and their price, I simply don't buy, the shop can display its goods till they become obsolete in three months or the Chinese come up with cheaper (often better) stuff!
About exchange rates, and maybe currency and commodity speculation (nice form of gambling), it is mostly beyond our monkeys, invariably they all think they know (like for everything else!) even gomens can go very near bust over that, and it is un-Islamic for us.
Malaysians should stop spending time and energy and money wnaking their heads over "multimedia superhighway/corridor", first car, third car, flying car, etc etc., in all seriousness we don't have quality institutions, talent, especially among our political monkeys with their bush "degrees". Our internet doesn't work properly, neither our telecommunication system, all we get is high charges for poor or no service…
Two of my European friends wanted to run their separate SCO operations in Malaysia. Both found no talent, overrated cocky monkeys, poor work ability and attitude, and little English. Not to forget a "fcuked up" system of gomen and getting no work done. They chose the Philippines, at least they have folks able to work hard, want to learn, can learn, good English, if not anything else…
Best and most realistic, we should be better peasants than most of us are not, go out to the fields, plant as much of our own fruits and vegetables as possible. Instead of talking old cock, new cock, and all cock all the time, our political monkeys should be sent to the fields, do genuinely useful things for society, all without the need for fake degrees and half degrees!
Btw, two weekends ago, I got a small lorry's worth of papayas off-loaded to three grocers, it made me near RM7,000. I won't like to say what the shops charge for them, but that would be as high as any of those imported stuff! Why not? You charge what the market can bear, for Malaysians they grumble but put up with that, bugger exchange rates, the only one thing is how the price shoots up once those lovely papayas exchanged hands! I sell "cheap", the shops shaft you!
Next load is in a week's time, and that is only papayas. Money does grow on trees, I actually don't know what to do with the easy money (cash) I get every other weekend. I go to the shops to look for things to buy, I change IT products every few months… I buy all sorts of gadgets I have to buy because money comes easy… or I would only gamble on currency and commodities… For those with nothing to do in their weekends, they can in due course drink themselves stupid – I have been thinking about distilling alcohol from the great deal of surplus each few months, you see, I keep back stuff to deliberately cause scarcity…
One last word, I do avocados too, they are half the price of the Australian ones, and half the size. But I sell them at half the price of the Australian ones – that is because, as I've just said, they are half the size. You get that? If you get two of my avocados to make the one Australian size, you see that I am making money off an always favourable exchange rate that doesn't and shouldn't exist. Few knows avocados can be grown here, they all think they are all imported.
I love exchange rates!
If there are donkeys, there would always be people to ride them.
I love Malaysia too – as much boleh as there are bollocks!
Forgot to say PH has been attempting to sell a lot of red herrings.
Pickled herrings can be very tasty, Polish pickled herrings are simply divine, though not in the "Holy" Hippo Hannah sense, but Pakatan Herrings are quite something else, doesn't help with substituting for the price of canned tuna or sardines, and a disingenuous way of distracting the rakyat from the appalling cost of living under Pakatan Hell.
Pakatan Hell can certainly make a big meal out of blaming Najib, Rosmah, 1MDB, Jho Low for everything the rubbish 1Term gomen can't handle. But nobody else except PH supporters can or want to feed themselves on that big meal.
Btw, quite a few of my friends want to cultivate rice (on a big scale and not in their gardens) but our 1Term gomen, in their 1track, 1meaning of live, love-our-palm-oil mode, can't think their way out of a bottle of love-your-palm-oil. Apart from self-reliance where we do not need to import most of our rice, there is a strategic reason for growing our own rice, trust our fcuked up gomen to think through that one!
Where can I buy Polish pickled herrings in Malaysia?
I'm sure they will go well with Polish Vodka Wyborowa, if it's available here.
Yes. Growing our own rice and producing our own food is important for our food security but this problem has plagued Malaysia since the days of the previous BN government and the Pakatan government apparently does not have a clue of how to get Malaysia to change course.
I suppose, with their focus on whacking the former BN government and leaders over corruption, cronyism, kleptocracy, nepotism, patronage, draconian rule, Altantuya, 1MDB, Teoh Beng Hock, etc., and Pakatan's mantra chant – "Competency, Accountability and Transparency", "meritocracy", "Malaysia Malaysia", etc., the Pakatan tiada-Haparan government cannot think outside of their own box about ensuring Malaysia's food security by encouraging more domestic food production, so they go along with implementing what was bequeathed to them from the previous BN government, such as "Love Palm Oil", etc.
I suppose, that's all the Pakatan tiada-Harapan government is good at doing so as to win elections but once elected, they are at a loss as to how to address more important issues affecting the masses.
"I'm sure they will go well with Polish Vodka Wyborowa, if it's available here."
Excellent with with Wyborowa, used to be cheap, till people got wind of that and Polish delights (food, not just women)
Czech beers go well with German sausages.
You can get Polish vodka in select stores, or order through them. Czech beers more difficult, but Belgium beers are a good substitute.
Get and enjoy them before whipping and stoning becomes fashionable.
Not possible to get Polish pickled herrings here, and the bottle size got smaller, price gone up and up in the West.
When I was a student in the U.K. in the 1970s, we could get Vodka Wyborowa in some shops which was quite cheap compared to British vodkas such as Smirnoff. The shop on Deansgate, Manchester also sold Polish Pure Spirit – i.e. 100% proof.
I must look around for Vodka Wyborwa in shops such as Tong Woh, Olivers, Hock Chun or maybe KK convenience stores.
BTW. The ringgit is at RM4.1359 to the U.S. dollar right now.
A friend who knows some business or financial journalists, some economic or financial analsysts as well as people in the financial and insurance industry told me last night about the likelihood of Malaysian bonds being dropped from the FTSE, which if happens will see the ringgit exchange rate plunging to RM4.40 or something lke that.
The Edge Markets has something on the likelihood if this happens.
However, it does not provide a forecast as to what could happen to the ringgit exchange if it happens.
The latest on Malaysia Stock.biz is that foreign funds and local retail traders bought shares on Bursa, whilst local institutional funds sold but by the end of today, it could be the other way.
Anyway, the perception amongst my neighbours is that our MP, prominent for her role as Bersih head, however is a lousy MP when it comes to serving our local concerns.
I guess, that Pakatan politicians who have honed their skills at opposing previous BN governments find themselves catapulted into having to be the government, they don't have a clue about how to govern, just like if a driver who is constantly being heckled by a "back seat driver", suddenly stops teh car and tells the "back seat driver" to take over and drive.
Right now, Tun Dr. M is the one of the few in the Pakatan government who has a long track record of governing the country, despite whatever wrongs he may have done during his tenure past and present.
At the back of my mind, I have a gut feeling, that the Pakatan Harapan will be even more clueless at governing, once Tun Dr. M steps down, if he steps down that is.
Let's wait and see.
"When I was a student in the U.K. in the 1970s, we could get Vodka Wyborowa in some shops"
No one told me about that, beer was a religion when I was a student, though not in the Stone Age like you…
But then I was never in Manchester more than two days at a time, north of London and upward was and are where the perpetually drunk natives live/d, I kept and keep off Smirnoff, bloody awful stuff, only good for the Brits. During your time in Blighty, you must have come across vodka as sold with something else, like lime or Coke… Many young Brits and the underaged are happy to drink vodka straight nowadays, keeps them off from thinking straight and facing their miserable lives…
If you need the bang from drinking the tasteless stuff, you can look for Chinese vodka, that's highly rated in knowledgeable quarters in the West. The most famous brand has the strange name "Great Wall", you can ask your favourite shop to order it for you, price is better in Asia. Throw a couple of torn salted plum or sweet dates in, and Wong's yer uncle! Drink neat and plenty if PH comes to mind.
Maybe we all need to take to drinking, the outlook is certainly bad for Malaysia. It is, in fact, extremely bad. Nothing was ever right after Josef StaLim terrorised investors with the country's debt as calculated by him. The "accountant" with the provisional qualification scared the investors so much that even the bravest ones are still running away today!
No doubt, in the days to come, the majority of the foreign investors would pull out their tents and leave. What's more, our corrupt would also move their loots abroad, those in PH among them.
I thought it a great thing if the ringgit goes down, and further down still, I can bring in my money I borrow cheap abroad, and make a pile. But then, it won't make any difference to spending here, the goods here would have gone up astronomically because of the exchange rates! Not saying, of course, goods are already more expensive here than in Europe or the US…
Contrary to what you think about Dr Death, I don't think for one moment he is gomening or serving the country, I think he has returned to serve himself, family and cronies. And PH lets him do that.
Where in the world but Malaysia would anyone care for an ancient dictator with a bad record to come back to wreck the country a second time?!
Yes, the PH is a useless, clueless and worthless bunch, but they serve the dying pharaoh well as ready, off-the-shelf scapegoats when the time comes. And Tutantwofacedkhamamak is always too ready to blame others.
Yes. Our farmers should grow more fruit and veg domestically but apparently do not.
We're also too obsessed with cash crops and other crap.
The government's guarantee committment due to 1MDB is RM38 billion according to Lim Guan Eng, whilst out federal government debt is RM686 billion.
Lim Guan Eng should explain why it is so high and startt workiing to reduce that elephant in the room.
Perhaps also introduce price controls on more items to control profiteering.
"Perhaps out dear Finance Minister and Economic Affairs Minister can explain why our ringgit is so weak and what they hope to do to strengthen it."
They can.
Blame Najib, blame 1MDB.
"They can."
"Blame Najib, blame 1MDB."
Yes. That's all they are good at providing as an excuse for their incapability – "Altantuya, Teoh Beng Hock, 1MDB, 2MDB, 3MDB, kleptocracy, nepotism, patronage, cronyism, etc, etc, etc." when they are at a loss as to how to go addressing the problem.
I will never vote for DAP so any party 'bersekongkol' with DAP will never ever get my vote! Fullstop!
Thanks for the link to the survey.
I have filled it in, mostly expressing dissatisfaction.
Commander (RTD) S.Thayaparan sums up my feelings here –
Eh ? I mean this one.
Are you disappointed in Harapan ?
Yeah, another brick is my go to as well.
1. less corruption, more freedom. but may revert.
2. some yes some no, slow pace unfortunately
3. same with my 2
4. ph, unless umno n pas talk less abt race n religion, while mca stand up to umno
5. economy n education
6. not satisfied
7. everyone can make noise without fear, but may change by looking at the talk of some idiot mp from ph.
8. honetly i dun know what they r doing, or did.
9. getting pessimistic day by day
10. msian wakaka
"less corruption, more freedom"
Any evidence to offer?
no. purely base on perception. the survey clearly asked tell us what u think of msia baru, all my reply is not factual, i add in reasons to substatiate my opinion, thats all. logically (wakaka), a fresh government tend to reduce corruption n allow more freedom, especially if this r their assertion that bn is corrupt n suppress freedom. i also said it may turn back, could be worst, anyhow, its still too earlier to tell.
y not u ask if helen reply come with any evidence?
Fundamentally weak like your brethrens in Dapig: Trying to pass pathos as logos. "Evidence" that comes from the ass should remain there.
C'mon, HY's responses has never been an exercise in Aristotelian misdirection.
I voted Harapan and yeah, I'll give them a term but it doesn't mean I will stop bitching about them.
The fun really starts when Mahathir is out of play.
If I cannot find a reasonable reason to vote for them in the next election, I will abstain.
But by this logic, I would not be voting for any of the mainstream parties.
Well, mass electoral politics is very much based upon perception and people's experiences on the ground, rather than logic.
Like if prices remain high or are rising, most consumers won't bother whatever logical explanation is provided for it and when it comes to voting, most will vote according to their sentiment.
Like some may vote for Nurul Izzah or Yeo Bee Yin just because they perceive them to be pretty.
"Like some may vote for Nurul Izzah or Yeo Bee Yin just because they perceive them to be pretty"
What about scrubber Hippo Hannah, then?
Would voting him be because of perception failure, perception overload, or the eye sees something to behold?
u waving yr manhood here n there as if u hv the longest, in fact yrs one is just a tiny chick spitting cock fiction, thats evidence for u i guess.
"thats evidence for u"
Would that be "perception" for you, then?
"u hv the longest"
That alone shouldn't be the sole consideration, however you perceive the thing of your obsession and joy.
"Longest" and thin doesn't help much, applies only to vermicelli.
There's also girth, shape, and, most of all its ability to perform
Thought old Anwar would have told you…
"pathos as logos"
That's all Greek to me.
When we should be using the superior language and logic (don't know our own word for that if we have that) of "ketuanan".
"a fresh government tend to reduce corruption n allow more freedom"
That a fact?
"y not u ask if helen reply come with any evidence?"
aiyo my bitchy fren, i already said mine is all perception, i even use the term tend to, how many times do u have to rehash the same point and get shot down in the same way before the lightbulb starts to flicker in yr head. aiyoyo.
n i am curious y u only asked me n not helen if her answer is factual based. or u want my elaboration again kah?
"bitchy"… "get shot down"… "the lightbulb"…
Those "all perception"?
"i am curious y u only asked me n not helen if her answer is factual based"
Why "helen"?
And why just "helen"?
I am not designed to have any "lightbulb", perhaps you could elaborate on what I don't see and you do with what "helen" wrote that is not "factual based" to you (and therefore should be for me too).
Then I can ask "helen" the question for you, since you are too timid or bashful to ask yourself.
I hope it is not your perception (delusion?) and persecution complex you feel picked-on, if I ask you, I must also ask "helen".
And why?
It could just be that you squirm around and about with your escape clause it's all your "perception", your "lightbulb" can't work on anything "factual based" (whatever the bollocks you perceive that means).
bitchy is a perceived description, the rest is my intuitive reaction to suit bitchy. only helen n me answer the survey in this thread, its normal if i ask y. if u cant reply or not willing to reply, thats
fine, not my concern at all.
the survey
hv u not been paying attention whatsoever of what i write? the survey asked what do u think, my reply is of course what i think, do i need to start my each reply with i think…..
can u get a grip on yr comprehension skill before responding to me, i start to feel bore to repeat myself la.
"intuitive reaction"
You mean an insect's twitch?
"can u get a grip on yr comprehension skill before responding to me"
It is a tough call understanding your appalling mangled Manglish.
And your typing skill of a spastic doesn't help your great cause.
You can't blame the audience for your disability.
"i start to feel bore to repeat myself la"
That's a grasshopper mind needing and seeking incessant gratification.
An "intuitive" guess would award you the label ADHD.
Addressing being "bored", and gratifying yourself for that is your own problem, you can't blame others for not stimulating you, this is not an "Anwar" kind of interest, you need sooth yourself by yourself.
And tame that monkey mind (in the Zen sense).
Btw, are you not dragging her into your rant and using "helen" as a shield for your lack of manhood or boyhood? Why do you need to do that "helen n me" thing (should be "helen and I")?
It would not be incorrect ethic, "helen" stands her own ground, and you yours.
And I ask "helen" my own question (if need be), and you yours (you need to).
i agree i dun possess the similar skill to write in such verbose style n unnecessarily convoluted sentences, yeah my bad.
n is this a merry-go-around? i asked a question, if u choose to ignore them, fine by me, if u choose not to ignore them, also fine by me. what u do or think, and what u dont do and dont think, r of absolutely no consequence to me.
so anymore question on fact n perception?
"i agree i dun possess the similar skill"
And that is not all..!
Helen Ang | April 18, 2019 at 5:46 pm
I think we have to unpack a couple of things. Your reply did not address the efficacy of socialism , only the variables which have led to ideological agitations in traditionally "liberal" Nordic regions.
Mono ethnic environs is conducive to most kinds of social and political policies/ideologies because – I don;t know – "culturally" it is easier to navigate ? Changing geo political forces from dying empires and corporate interest are of course changing this.
White people complaining about paying for entitlements or subsidizes for colored people does not address the issue of the value (or lack thereof)of these policies.
It like in this country. The standard narrative is that the Non Malays are paying for the entitlements of the majority Malays and that they are being discriminated against when it comes to the implementation of these policies. What we are talking about here is housing, healthcare, education, what have you.
Whether this narrative is true or not should not detract from the question, of whether these policies work ? Since I am not not one of those fancy intellectual types, I tend to answer these questions by attempting to discover if a certain policy has some sort of utilitarian value instead of attempting to frame it in some grand ideology.
Socialism has become a bad word, because most of its critics parrot the dummy right wing narrative from the US, where they think that socialism begins and ends with Venezuela or before that big bad Russia.
Heck even they DAP heaped some "socialist shit" on PSM hinting that Malay rights would be in jeopardy under a socialist system even though PSM has fielded Malay/Muslim candidates and one of their big cheeses is Muslim.
Politisheiss, did a good job of parsing the rhetoric and politics of PSM and Harapan but ultimately the "socialism" tag is just propaganda considering the policies (socialists) in place in this county and the official religion of the land is grounded in socialist group think and dogma.
I would argue that any influence that PSM may get, would be better than the ethno religious nonsense coming from mainstream political parties.
"B'cos the ideology doesn't work, and has brought disaster…."
So has capitalism , combined with Judaeo Christian imperatives, look at the history of colonialism, slavery (as state sanctioned commercial enterprise) and Big Business.
I brought up the Nordic countries as a counter example to your example of Venezuela.
"Functionally it was, until it wasn't."
This goes for every system.
"A socialist framework is inbuilt within it its own structural weaknessness, i.e. implementation that's open to and riddled with abuse."
The same could be argued of capitalism. Again look at the legal framework which protects corporate interests at the expense of public interests. The disparity in liability for (1) crime, (2) negligence in heath care and (3) the privatization of warfare, just for example.
"The immigrants all headed for Germany and Sweden. If they were genuinely fleeing for their lives …."
Again, what has this do with the efficacy of the socialist system unless the argument is that it is open to abuse. The same could be applied to flooding the borders of the US which is not a socialists paradise.
Furthermore thousands of people are heading to Germany and Sweden because Germany and Sweden for various reasons are welcoming them, which has caused the leadership of both countries, politically.
Edit to add.
Upon further reflection maybe you could point out, which socialists policies you think do not work. As I said up thread, I attempt to view policy – regardless of ideology – in its utilitarian value . Some may take exception with this, but hey, life's to short.
I'm not advocating majoritarian uber alles or anything like that (and neither I think are you) but it seems to me, we are going around in circles. Looking back at our replies we seem to be arguing in general about specific models of theory which is unproductive.
I think capitalism is dysfunctional but as a broad theory/system of governance it is better -in a utilitarian sense, when it comes to realizing first principles – than the other economic /ideological theories out there.
But I could argue the hell against it especially when theory is merely part of the gestalt of governance in most democracies.
So what exactly is PSM advocating in terms of policy do you think will not work in this country ? How is is different from what the mainstream political parties are advocating ?
"Those in Sweden….."
What exactly do you think is not working ? Socialized healthcare ? What about the system in place here ? Do you think it is not working ? I'm trying to get a handle on what you're objecting to ?
"…..levers of power refuse to entertain…."
But this is not really a problem with socialism , right ? I mean the levers of power always refuse to entertain demands from the opposition.
"Or perhaps you can direct me to a PSM manifesto you wish me to read?"
I could but you seem to be pretty uptodate on PSM.
In the meantime, this might interest you @ https://partisosialis.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Handling-Religion-in-the-Malaysian-Context.pdf
I have read it. What do you think I would find interesting ?
My views (not surprising) are in line with Thaya's who responded to Dr.Jeya when he wrote about hudud –
I hope you do not mind me linking to Din's blog. I could not find the original Mkini article
"The brains of its socialist bureaucrats running the day-to-day programmes of its welfare system."
So if they had better brains ,the programs would work ?
"Take our super-sized investment in socialized education, speaking here of ……"
But your objections seems to be about the discrimination . If there was no discrimination or minimal discrimination, would you still object to it ?
"As I've said, welfare works best in small, mono-ethnic countries like Scandinavia …."
But we have a welfare system here for the Malays which is part and parcel of a specific ideology . This has been going on for years using tax ringgit and most Malaysians were happy with the system voting in successive BN regimes.
Now the agenda seems to be making the system class based instead of race based. The question still remains, do you think socialist policies are not working here in Malaysia ?
"It's a problem when socialist demands remain only a wish list that governments all but ignore…."
But many other capitalist demands are not met. Unfettered regulation, ever more tax breaks etc. I mean, when PSM advocates for better subsidized healthcare for instance or a higher minimum wage or wrokers rights when it comes to compensation, do you think this is something the government should handle or not ?
"Looks like PSM also noticed the shenanigans of DAP's Hallelujah Squad."
Funny thing is, that Dr. Jeya is a Tamil Methodist and there is none of this Hallelujah crap coming from him.
@ Paul Wolfobitch,
Firstly, I like your moniker, since Paul Wolfowich, the neo-conservative, was a prime architect behind the U.S. imperialist wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, though Anwar Ibrahim regards him as a 'good friend' and even visited Wolfowich after Anwar's first release from prison and even supported Wolfowich in his bid for chairmanship of the World Bank.
It is this western orientation of Anwar and PKR which makes me wary of them, since whilst we have genuine domestic political grievances and at that time with Mahathir, UMNO and the BN over many issues, however outside imperialist interests exert their soft power to take advantage of domestic grievances to gain access to a country's key economic sectors and to gain political influence.
This recent video which appeared shortly after Pakatan won GE14 is proof of the role which the International Republican Institute with the help of the National Endowment for Democracy, played in helping Malaysia's opposition parties and NGOs to defeat the BN, which had grown closer to China. That Daniel Twinning guy of the IRI reveals it all as part of U.S. imperialism's long game.
Here is the full video from which the above clip was taken. (The sound is silent in the first about 30 to 45 seconds)
In response to the video clip, especially leading PKR politicians and pro-Pakatan or anti-BN NGOs were running around like headless trying to explain their way our of Daniel Twinning's claims or to distance themselves from it.
Whilst I do not discount the need for Malaysians to address genuine grievances with the government, however relying on U.S. imperialist backed bodies such as the NED or organisations established by or funded by George Soros, is like selling one's soul to the devil for relief from current problems, since sooner or later the devil will demand his due.
Now coming round to your statement in your earlier post.
"I don't think it is quite that, PSM did make overtures to PH, or at least what it was, to work united over some platform, issue, and election, but was shunned."
At one time, PSM was bidding to become a part of what was then Pakatan Rakyat but was rejected and later came into conflict with some PR parties which contested the same seats which PSM wanted to contest in. For example, the Selangor state seat of Kota Damansara which Dr.Nasir won with a slim majorityin a two-cornered fight with UMNO in 2008 but lost to UMNO in a three-cornered fight with PAS, then a PR member party.
However, whilst PSM regards both BN and Pakatan parties as capitalist parties serving capitalist interests, however it has alwayys regarded Pakatan parties as the 'lesser evil' and I believe that PSM's strategy to work with Pakatan, pro-Pakatan and anti-BN NGOs to oust BN is based upon the Comintern's and Mao's strategy of participating in a united front of all political forces, whether communist, socialist or capitalist, which had a common objective to fight for independence from the coloniser, which in our case was Britain. This communist strategy in colonial countries called a "two-stage revolution" aimed to win independence and if the communists won power, was to first establish a new democratic republic which would still operate as a capitalist society and economy under communist supervision and the communist government would then begin implementing the second stage to move the society and economy to a socialist republic in which the means ofproduction, distribution and exchange are socially owned and in which prodution is to serve society's needs, rather than the interests of private profit.
I have not heard about a two-stage revolution strategy from the PSM itself but rather from some members of Hishamuddin Rais' Universiti Bangsar Utama who attended a PSM public forum in Petaling Jaya around 2000.
I had asked the forum, in which Premesh Chandran of Malaysiakini moderated and where journalist James Wong Wing Onn spoke, whether PSM should involve itself with the Reformasi movement, which essentially was a movement by a faction of Malaysia's capitalist class against another faction and one of the four UBU guys said that socialists should support Reformasi as part of a two-stage revolution to oust BN.
Another possibility is that PSM is following the policy advocated to western communists by Lenin in his pamphlet – 'Left Wing' Communism: An Infantile Disorder, in which he criticised western communist groups who refused to participate in workers' movements and with workers' parties, claiming that they we not ideologically pure enough and they did not want to work with them. In his pamphlet, Lenin scolded the such western leftists that if they remained in their politically pure sects, they would never gain any influence or support of the working class. Such leftists are termed "ultra-leftists" in Marxist-Leninist terminology, in that they exist in the realm of ideals – like reclusive monks in a monestary, rather than be willing to go down amongst the masses, work with them in their struggles, even lead some struggles and in the process conver then to Marxist-Leninist ideology, similar to priests who go amongst the impure masses to win them over to give up their former lives of crime or vice and come over to their religion and to God.
Now unlike the Social Democratic Party of Germany and other social democratic parties in Europe and elsewhere, which were members of the Second International (1880 – 1920), an alliance of socialist ane workers' parties which were Marxist and which built trade unions, contested elections, and were deeply involved in the life of the working class in each country; however the ideology of Britain's Labour Party, founded in 1990 by the trade unions and assorted leftist groups, including the the Independent Labour Party, the intellectual and largely middle-class Fabian Society, the Marxist Social Democratic Federation and the Scottish Labour Party, was not officially Marxist, though there were Marxist within the Labour Party, which ahd similar aims as the Second International and achieved reforms which benefitted the workers within Britain's democratic capitalist system and the Labour Party contested in elections to win seats and be able to introduce socialist measures into Britain.
In 1918, the Labour Party included Clause IV into its constitution, which is regarded as a statement of its committment to socialsm.
"To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service."
The early Labour Party up until its defeat by Thatcher's Conservatives in 1979 was committed to nationalisation of Britain's industries.
You can read more about the Labour Party here:-
Now in his pamplet, 'Left Wing Communism', especially in the chapter – "Left-Wing" Communism in Great Britian, Lenin urged British communists to work with rank and file members of the Labour Party, workers' organisatons, the trade unions and so forth and to participate in their struggles, in which Lenin famously called upon British communists to "support the Labour Party as a rope supports a hanged man", and this has led many British far-left parties to call for voters to vote for the Labour Party where their candidate was not standing – i.e. to vote for the lesser evil until today, even though today's Labour Party, especially since the time of Tony Blair, has removed Claus IV from its constitution, more or less gave up its socialist objectives, expelled its radical left Trotskyite faction (I'm no Trotskyite BTW) and has move towards the right and morphed into a "kinder and gentler" capitalist party than the Conservatives.
However despite all that, many far-left groups in Britain, including many Trotskyite parties and groups, still callfor a vote for the Labour Party in elections, though some far-leftists have stopped giving their support for the Labour Party and instead have denounced it as a capitalist and pro-imperialist party (like Britain under Tony Blair which supported Britain's involvement in the war on Iraq, Afgahanistan and so forth as an ally of U.S. imperialism).
Now back to the PSM, it appears to me that in similar vein, they are supporting a vote for Pakatan as the 'lesser evil', even though Pakatan is comprised of capitalist parties, with no workers' parties amongst them and many Pakatan parties and their politicians subscribe to neo-liberalism similar to Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and which many social democratic parties in Europe and elsewhere have implemented neo-liberal austerity measures and this is why many citizens of these countries have turned towards the anti-globalist, supposedly anti-EU and supposedly anti-neoliberal populist right.
Whilst I would not say that Trump is totally anti-neoliberal and anti-globalist, however he has re-introduced some protectionist measures and has quashed U.S. participation in the TPPA, which are measures anathema to neoliberalism.
Anyway, the PSM sees the Pakatan as the 'kinder' capitalists who allow more political space for people to peacefully protest, to speak up and so forth, despite Pakatan's neoliberal policies which PSM criticises but cannot convince them to introduce some social democratic reforms which PSM wants.
"PSM does have good thinkers, genuine social concern, and good able speakers."
Perhaps they do but there is little they can do to convince Pakatan to adopt some of the policies they propose.
"I think those comic bullsh*t peddlars in Pakatan fear that. I have yet to see anything involving PSM put up for open discussion."
Obviously they won't because Pakatan is neoliberal. They will be OK with more freedom of speech, more social, cultural and religious freedom, competency, accountability and transparency and so forth but will resist any curtailment of the freedom of capitalists in the economic sphere, such as nationalisation of industry, higher taxes on profitable companies to pay for better social services, greater freedom for workers to form or join trade unions, greater freedom for trade unions to strike for more pay and better conditions, more affordable, state-built public housing for the B40 group and so forth.
Just wait and see and I won't be surprised if the Pakatan government privatises some GLCs or divest majority of minority equity owned by the Malaysian government in these GLCs.
Now I can already hear some protests condemning government-owned GLCs as "inefficient", "crony" and so forth bodies and yes, whilst that may have been so under past BN governments, however the solution is not for the Pakatan government to privatise them but clean up the mess in them and make them play their role in adding to the wealth of Malaysia and to benefit the people.
Wolfowitz was indeed one of the architects of the illegal Iraq invasion, and a fellow mass murderer in the discredited enterprise which saw countless innocents slaughtered on such massive scale. Interesting how comfortable Anwar was with the conspirators against the (Muslim) world, he would sleep with the vipers against his own kind (don't know what that is, actually, that depends on the phase of the moon for him) if it gives him the whiffaste of power, and the thought of an opportunity to rule Malaysia through the assistance of regime change artists, selling his own mother is fine.
Actually, selling his own grandmother is fine too, Anwar once tried to sell the yarn about how his granny taught him moral when he came home with a couple of stolen fruits. Anwar spun the unlikely story (he said the fruits belonged to nobody, since nobody owned the tree he didn't own), it was with that batch of fairy tales in which Anwar sold himself as a seriously religious reader of every holy religious book there was – all inside a prison, when he was no busy yelling about his bad back and nobody bending over backward for him. If there Gospel of the Magic Flying Spaghetti Monster, you can bet Anwar had read that too…
Anwar did unwisely boast after his spell with those notorious Yank neo-cons how he "predicted" the fashion of "Arab Spring" way before time – which happened to coincide with the period he played niggah boy and stooge to the neo-cons, and was clearly in early on the enterprise of regime change through staged rabble rousing. Arab Spring failed, and failed horribly, but even so, the fcuking dumb Anwar was so proud of his ability to "foresee events" – and advertise himself as a dumb neo-con plantation niggah accomplice for regime change!
It was said that Anwar even found Wolfowitz a Muslim girlfriend, and, probably taught Wolf creature how to use spit on a comb when grooming himself.
Anwar looked a damn embarrassing twit kampong crawling clown in that famous photo when he had the grovelling colonial niggah's look, all wet with uncontrollable excitement at the honour of sitting with his massahs. How sick and pathetic, this cheap kampong trashbag on two legs! Anwar would sink to any level to debase himself – all through his own genius and effort!
I have not really followed the discussion here on "socialism", when used as a term for or by any gomen – or colour of any policy, I haven't ever see "socialism" in action anywhere, I don't think there's been any "socialist" gomen anywhere. Or maybe even "socialist" policy. That as applied in Scandinavia is but the "compassion" of benign capitalism. Any attempt at being "socialist" would see the Yanks bring that gomen down, eg. the Allende gomen, the attempts to destablise the Chavez gomen of Venezuela – among others.
Hitler was a "socialist", so was Lee Kuan Yew – even when both were more fascist than anything else!
I don't routinely or conveniently follow the narratives of the MSM, nothing is as "straightforward" or cut and dried as that would make things easy for the sheep.
Other than serving as a convenient label usually for gomens or policies that the Yanks MSM or politicians do not like, I think "socialism" means different things to different people.
I doubt if the Yanks know what socialism is, even for the likes of Bernie Sanders (him, plenty rich fella!), AOC, etc. The Yanks do have the ignorance and paranoid fear of the word socialism, and, still greater (automatic/robotic) hatred of communism. Well and good if they know what either is, but the Yanks very generally don't!
I don't know what being "left" means nowadays, the term seemed hijacked for another lazy label.
Some of our good colonial servile monkeys seem to follow the use of the term as by US MSM, there is usually nothing "left" in the thinking of eg. the Yank "Left" or any faction of the Brit Labour Party – you can't get anybody more fcuking "right wing" and fascist than Holy Tony who "prayed with Bush Junior"!
What "is" or "is not" "socialist" or "left" is a big topic, and is not straightforward or simple, we need first to know what those terms mean to what person/people. I would be careful not to be too ready to use those term or enter into any discussion over them.
I have no idea what PSM is about. As far as their rants go, they seem quite all right, well thought out. Some are, in fact, quite agreeable by me, in so far as, they would "serve the people" to more extent. I am agreeable when a "proper" "socialist" gomen takes over, the debate is whether they would eventually honestly "serve the people" or be just another corrupt bunch of politicians… I would be happy to give the "socialists" a chance, I don't think entering any "debate" on "socialism" as set forth by capitalism is wise, I would be careful about the propaganda from both side (George Orwell, Rudyard Kipling, Anthony Burgess all served as colonial propaganda officers in their time!).
The Brit Labour Party even before Holy Tony's lot took over have always have some rather bent views, eg. they happily engaged in colonial wars and wars abroad, subvert trade unions, worked for rather than with capitalism, were and are often worse than the Tories when it came/comes to that, or when it comes to having racist views. A lot of old Malaysian politics had to do with Brit Labour colonialist and racist mentality. Of course, "New" Labour had Holy Tony's pro-capitalist and condescending "internationalist" views – we have to be careful here, a lot of past so-called "left-leaning" Labour leaders were never that, or "progressive" in any way, nor were the trade unionists – Joe Gormley salivated for a "Lord" title, he worked as a snitch for the Brit Special Branch too! Len Murray happily lived with his "Lord" title, talk about sellouts..!
Privatisation and nationalisation is all well and good, but neither would work in Malaysia where we seem to find the worst morons around running businesses and industry (and gomen!)
That said, I don't know what "liberal" means these days… And I don't know what "neo-liberalism" really is… I think like every term in use today, they are meaningless as well as dangerous to use.
Old Lao Tzu, he did say, that which can be described (termed, labelled) are often not which is described… I think thinking of anything as labelled or as defined often missus the real meaning… people tend to run away with labels. Sadly, the "intellectual" world is still one of "define this, define that…" and then masturbating with them over whatever is discussed… I treat forums just as kopitiams, you listen to armchair politicians, people who moan, whine, groan, bitch, gossip, spread rumours, talk sense, talk rot… – even though these serve the world better than fcuking politicians on their soapboxes.
Btw, a sad event in the mornings I drop in a kopitiam for my semi-raw eggs, is seeing folks grab the morning papers sit themselves down to get "educated"… But it turns to grief when you hear folks reciting what they learn from the papers circulated by the political parties, thus, just before the election, I heard the sermons on Dr Death "crying" to some kid about "saving Malaysia", I heard about why I should think about "my children's future" when I vote. Well, I basically left it to my young children to think for themselves, and my son is screwing the Danish system to get his free postgrad indoctrination, while my daughter gets her university free in the UK, she made the system pay for her, both got their private schooling on scholarships by working the system, if I had left it to sermons from our monkeys fed on our politicians diet or unvarnished crap, both of them would be thinking like our fcuking retard sheep all with lots of after-school tuition on top of the non-education we have in our fcuked up country!
In all seriousness, I won't mind a nice bit of corruption in Malaysia (it's the most popular religion), how else can we get anything done? – I hand over some dosh to some monkey, things get done immediately, I don't have to wait five months for nothing to get done by some conveniently lazy and incompetent monkey… I sneak a copper some notes, I don't have to queue up to pay a fine, waste the day… It's only the idealist who wants to save the shit-forsaken country, the country is beyond saving, I don't think any kind of "ism" can save the country. I had to laugh when politicians bribed the public with two day holiday if they get voted in during the last election. Never mind if we get the black or brown monkey in gomen, the sheep just want more holidays, every other day we have some kind of holiday, and that is on top of the permanent holiday when we have a workforce that don't really want to work, our monkeys won't survive if we don't have the foreigners here to change their nappies. And the foreigners don't survive, we have some monkeys who torture and even kill them!
On that positive note, and about privatisation (or nationalisation), I won't leave it to PH to handle those, PH simply doesn't have anyone capable of doing either – or anything else, it is that bad. The way things have gone and are going with that useless bunch and that old failed dictator, Malaysia is well-nigh done for, things can only get worse in the months to come.
And the "lesser evil" now is Najib and his bunch. Since we can forgive Dr Death who was worse than Najib, why can't we forgive Najib, bring him, Rosmah, and their lovely cat back? Bring back the investors too, of course. As far as I can be bothered, Rosmah can keep her pink diamond, both of them!
Now get me another kopi, kau kau, large one, milk, one sugar… get the Indon girls to serve me, not the locals who can't even hold a cup properly…
hv u ever see a "capitalist" govt anywhere? i need a scotch. no ice.
"hv u ever see a "capitalist" govt anywhere?"
I have.
In more than one country.
You need buy that scotch, no ice, yourself!
in that case, i also see more than one socialist govt. but of course u r more likely to disagree since u seem to have very unique definition of many terms, solely due to yr very powderful command of english language wakaka.
nothing is free. but i wont get drunk minum kopi.
"in that case, i also see more than one socialist govt."
Could care less what you "see" or not "see", why is the "perception" of an attention-seeking tw*t of any importance to anyone, and "in that" or any "case"? Has anyone single you out for your view?
"u seem to have very unique definition of many terms"
Like for what, what, and what?
And, if any, why should my "very unique definition of many terms" be same as those of an imbecile tree-swinging monkey which thinks it should run the zoo, and has already appointed itself to do so?!
"command of english language"
You need to know the English language to know what a "command of english language" is.
You must be suffering badly from inferiority, insecurity, from your desperate need to keep up with me!
But who cares about your genetic handicap, your inability to "compete" with those who have climbed the rungs of the evolutionary ladder?!
"Survival of the fittest" is not about thumping your manboob, or rather, kidboob, it is also the ability to let go when your gross sense of inferiority and insecurity necessitates your mayfly need to throw yourself at a giant tree when your infantile perception imagines some kind of "slight" that causes massive loss of face to you. That would be the kind of mentality and behaviour we see in the average kiasu peasant, mine-digger, and coolie types that garland the DAP. I call these types the shame and the end of the great Chinese Civilisation.
Every time I write something or even write nothing, your genetic handicap gets you worked up in some bizarre manner, you pop your head up to be struck by me. Worse still when I seek a bit of cheap entertainment, give you a little attention, bait you, you loyally and obediently swallow the hook, line, sinker – and the whole fishing rod!
So who gives the brown stuff what your definition of whatever is or is not?
Or gives the monkey what you see as my definition of whatever? You can't be appointing yourself to mark papers here with your sheer lack of poise, content, and appalling monkeyspeak!
I won't advise drinking for the purpose of getting "drunk". That is for the peasants, coolies, mine-diggers, scrubbers, oiks, chavs… One drinks for the pleasure of drinking, and drinks the better stuff.
"Scotch, no ice" is for those who don't want their rubbish "whiskies" further diluted, and want to drink the battery acid straight.
Scotch and ice is only for the whiskies with the highest ABV, it locks down the flavour, but our monkeys do not drink for the pleasure of appreciating fine whiskies, they drink for depression, for showing "manhood", it is clear you like to get "drunk" because that shows for you you are some "grown up" above the rest of your kampong back alley wonders.
I doubt you've ever came near any good whiskies, let alone the fine ones. If you don't get those by the (large) bottle, it is even unlikely you can afford a little tumbler at over RM200 a go, and only at places where the bouncers thump you even when you are across the street simply because of your look – and smell!
You should leave out whiskies, even those fake ones distilled by those backyard outfits, the Johnny Wnaker, Chibai Regal, McLalang, ones for monkeys to out-drink each other, be merry, loud, riot over… and act as poseurs for "adulthood".
So, if you have not left sucking mummy's tits, go for the other right option, warm milk from a baby bottle! Give mum a break, there's a good little kiasu peasant "big man"!
Try leave out the "wakaka", that's for demented infantile hyenas. Stop behaving an uncultured peasant, and I'll respect you, continue spitting on you!
yrs arent arguments on the pertinent issue i raised, but reflexive utterances of unknown purpose. good english or busy with a thesaurus?
" the pertinent issue i raised"
Didn't notice that, must be your mangled Manglish…
"reflexive utterances of unknown purpose"
"Term" with "unknown purpose" to me…
i can tell y u didnt notice, simply bec yr world exists only in the space between yr ears, and has no real bearing on any points beyond.
"u didnt notice, simply bec yr world exists only in the space between yr ears"
Physically, the eyes cannot "notice" any "world exists only in the space between yr ears"!
Normal eyes cannot see in that direction or "there", even those belonging to successful bomohs.
And even if "the world" actually only exists "in" that "space" if you are trying to say "mind, head".
If you mean the "mind's eye", that is another cuppa cha, and highly problematic area for discussing, quite beyond you even if your psychic bomoh helps you.
Some even say "the world only exists in your eyes".
You need read up substantially on "reality", get your head tested, your imagination often run riot, you seem to have some serious problem with imagination and reality, are you a computer game addict?
"no real bearing on any points beyond"
Don't know what you are trying to say, but are you a car mechanic, a DAP rocket scientist?
aiyoo a stereotypical response again, n again, all u could do is merely useless verbiage that says in 10 sentences what could have been said in 1. is that fun for u?
"aiyoo a stereotypical response again"
"stereotypical" of what?
"that says in 10 sentences what could have been said in 1"
I write remembering there are those who need that "10 sentences" approach, but, do go on, give us a demo, do every 10 sentences in my posts in your "1 sentence".
But not in your typical mentally-unhinged inscrutable gibberish, please.
shit, this guy could guess my mind, i need 10 strawman.
"shit, this guy could guess my mind"
"Shit!" "this guy" actually can't!
And can't be bothered making any "guess".
"This guy" doesn't have any psychic bomoh to help correctly "guess" anything.
"This guy" treats all you attempt to write as garbage.
All "this guy" can do with garbage is treat it like garbage.
Spitting on it and getting your grateful response is about all I can ever want, thank you!
I have no idea what you meant here .
"My point of contention remains that the more diverse our society, the lower chance that socialist programmes will be implemented fairly."
By this logic (and I'm not being sarcastic) any kind program based on any kind of ideology/economic theory will not be implemented fairly in diverse societies, which is clearly wrong . Again, your criticism is not specific to socialist programs.
"And here's irony for you: PSM bringing up this matter will only have them being called "racist"…."
Again the Bangsa Malaysia propaganda is what it is. The reality is that the DAP – a supposed socialists based political entity – has attacked PSM's socialism before. The goal is to negate the socialists propaganda with facts and not make excuses for it or use it (the propaganda) as an excuse.
"Enough voters unhappy with the system, so much so that the incumbent BN was regime changed"
You really think that voters were dissatisfied with socialism when it came to overthrowing BN ?
Then why is Harapan a minority government and doing everything in its powers to re brand affirmative action, entitlement programs of the previous BN regime?
Why are Harapan supporters shouting for a needs based as opposed to a race based approach for entitlements which is receiving blow back from the Malay right in Harapan ?
"Which Harapan bigwig this year has promoted class-based implementation? "
Very true. Before the election, political operatives from Harapan were babbling on about a needs based approach. Of late Anwar ibrahim and maybe – maybe – a few DAP outliers have been endorsing such initiatives. But Anwar is prime for a good old fashioned backstabbing not to mention, can anyone really trust him and the DAP eats its own.
"Much, much better chance for capitalist demands than PSM's to be met…"
This is very true. Also it would be far easier in Malaysia for theoretic demands to be met too.
"Going by their track record …."
You did not answer my question. Do you think that the issues raised by PSM should be something a government – any regime – needs to address ?
"They're really the other side of the coin to PAS."
I think it goes deeper than that. Take the LGBTQ position for example. Besides a Christian like Charles Santiago, the positions of PAS and the Evangelical wing of the DAP are the same, right ?
So the discrimination aspect of this issue is buried by the Harapan mainstream which only serves greater Islamic hegemony. The MCA claimed that the DAP was a vehicle for Mahathir's Islamic policy. In my opinion this is one of the ways this happens.
"Socialized education, Indians not getting Matric places. Job ads (capitalist), ethnicity is covert selection criterion."
Again this is not a specific criticism of socialism.
"More specific because socialist programmes require altruism from those paying into the system in contrast to buyer-seller transaction of capitalism."
Are you claiming that a buyer-seller transaction is free from covert selection criterion ?
"Chinese voters, most certainly."
Chinese voters rejected the socialism of BN ? Really ? Then why then are they yearning for needs based entitlement programs ?
"Suckers howling at the moon for what they had been promised in manifesto not worth the toilet paper it was printed on."
Which contradicts your point that the Chinese voted UMNO/BN out because they rejected "socialism". The Harapan manifesto is a trove of socialists entitlement programs, with everything from free education to higher minimum wages.
"Gandhi when asked his thoughts on Western Civilization replied it would be a good idea."
Which is fine but I am asking you ?
"A buyer-seller transaction is not predicated on altruism. Socialism OTOH requires trust which more often than not is abused (think Animal Farm)."
That was not my question.
"Chinese are not being offered it/NEP…."
Which is why they are asking for a needs based approach instead of a race based approach. This does not mean they rejected socialism only that they want to be part of those programs funded by their tax ringgit.
"……they were banking on Harapan to similarly put out the feeding troughs for them in the name of equality."
Exactly which again contradicts your point that the Chinese rejected BN because of socialism.
"….the Chinese rejected the STATUS QUO of 'socialist' benefits…."
Incorrect they rejected the discriminatory practices of the government of the day, on programs which they contribute to. This is completely different from your proposition that they Chinese rejected BN because of socialism.
Edit to add –
"Since you've dragged the discussion in this direction…."
I didn't drag this discussion anywhere or at least I didn't do it all by my lonesome.
If you want me to drop it I will.
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The Rolex Explorer II is a robust and reliable tool watch. Its additional 24-hour hand can be used to display a second time zone or as a day/night display. Its design means it is easy to read at a glance.
The Explorer II is a member of Rolex's Oyster Perpetual family. The manufacturer designed the watch with a specific group of explorers and scientists in mind. When the Explorer II premiered in 1971, it was the perfect tool for spelunkers. Spending long hours in underground labyrinths without any sunlight can cause you to lose a sense of whether it's night or day. Regular watches, whose hour hands don't distinguish between AM and PM, aren't much help in this situation. This can be a problem in polar regions during the winter as well, as the sunless polar night can be disorienting.
Rolex developed a watch to solve this exact problem. The Explorer II has an additional hour hand that makes one full rotation a day and works in combination with a fixed 24-hour bezel. The GMT-Master II also features a second hour hand, but has a rotating bezel. The rotating bezel makes it more appropriate for travel across different time zones. However, because the extra hour hand can be set separately in both models, the Explorer II can also display the time in another time zone.
|Price (approx.)
|Ref. 1655
|40 mm
|1570 / 1575
|Ref. 16550
|40 mm
|Ref. 16570
|40 mm
|3185 / 3186
|Ref. 2165700
|42 mm
|3187 with a Parachrom hairspring
Vintage Explorer II models with the reference number 1655 are especially highly sought-after. Known among watch fans as "Steve McQueen" or "Freccione" , this line was part of Rolex's catalog from 1971 to 1975 and differentiates itself from later models mainly in its dial and bezel design. It has printed line indices on the dial, and the numerals on the bezel are markedly thinner than those found on the models that followed. What's more, the numerals on earlier models were separated by triangles, which were replaced by lines on later models. This watch also lacks the Mercedes hands that are so common today, and its orange glow-in-the-dark 24-hour hand has a large, arrow-shaped tip. Depending on the year of production, this timepiece is powered by either the caliber 1570 or 1575. Expect prices of around 43,900 USD for a never-worn ref. 1655. Pre-owned models cost an average of 20,400 USD.
Its successor model, the ref. 16550, is also quite popular. It was with this watch that Rolex first introduced the round applied hour markers we still see today. Those on the 16550 were white gold and filled with luminous material. The indices at 6 and 9 o'clock were bar-shaped, while the 12 o'clock marker was an upside down triangle. Sapphire glass, Mercedes hands, and a red 24-hour hand with a thinner arrow tip were also new to this timepiece. Furthermore, it was the first Explorer II to come with the option of a black or white dial. The caliber 3085 ticks away in both Explorer II and GMT-Master pieces from this time period. Over time, the dials on the white editions have turned more ivory in color. These are referred to as "cream dials" and are especially coveted by collectors. Prices for never-worn pieces start around 22,300 USD. On the other hand, you can get a pre-owned model with a black dial for as little as 9,500 USD.
The ref. 16570 followed in 1989 and was almost identical to its predecessors. Models with white dials featured indices trimmed in black as well as black hands. The caliber 3185 powered these watches until 2007 when it was replaced by the 3186. You can recognize later models by their lugs, which were no longer drilled through, and by the Rolex engraving on the rehaut. Plan to spend about 5,600 USD on a pre-owned Explorer II ref. 16570. Never-worn models demand an additional 1,900 USD.
The Explorer II experienced its biggest update with the introduction of the ref. 216570 in 2011. Its stainless steel case is 42 mm in diameter and feels significantly heftier. This model was given a maxi dial with enlarged glow-in-the-dark indices and marked a return to the large orange arrow-shaped 24-hour hand found on the original model. Its movement was also overhauled. The caliber 3187 now powers this timepiece. It features an anti-magnetic blue Parachrom hairspring and the Paraflex shock protection system. These watches cost 7,900 USD new. You can save a few hundred euros if you purchase a pre-owned model.
Rolex uses the caliber 3187 in the current generation models with reference number 216570. This automatic movement beats at 28,800 alternations per hour (4 Hz) and has a 48-hour power reserve. This is truly a high-precision movement. It deviates from the reference time by a maximum of only two seconds a day. The caliber is COSC-certified, meaning the Official Swiss Chronometer Testing Institute (COSC) tested the caliber's accuracy and awarded it a certificate confirming its high performance. The 3187 is derived from the 3135, a movement that is used in a number of Rolex watches, including the diving watch Sea-Dweller Deepsea.
The 3187 features a blue Parachrom hairspring. Rolex introduced this important balance wheel component in 2005 after a five-year period of development. The hairspring is made of an anti-magnetic zirconium-niobium alloy and is ten times less affected by jolts than regular hairsprings. The Explorer II is even more protected, though, as its Paraflex shock protection system shields it from shocks and extreme conditions.
When used as intended, the 24-hour display on the Explorer II functions as follows: At 6 AM, the extra hour hand is at the three o'clock position, pointing to the six on the bezel. At noon, it's at the six o'clock position, which corresponds to 12 on the bezel. At the beginning of the evening at 6 PM, the hand moves to the nine o'clock position, corresponding to 18 on the bezel. Six hours later at midnight, the hour hand reaches the final point of its full rotation: the 12 o'clock position corresponding to 24 on the bezel.
Both the case and three-piece link bracelet on the Explorer II are made of 904L stainless steel. This type of steel is especially corrosion and scratch resistant. The practical Oysterlock clasp has been part of the bracelet since the ref. 216570. Thanks to its Easylink extension system, extending the bracelet by 5 mm couldn't be simpler. This is especially useful when you are exercising or in warm temperatures, as the wrist can swell slightly.
The screw-down Twinlock crown is equipped with two gaskets to protect it against water and dirt. The gasket system and the screw-down case back ensure waterproofness to a depth of 100 m (10 bar, 328 ft). Thus, you can wear your Explorer II while swimming and snorkeling without any problems.
The dial is available in two colors: black or white. The hour indices are available exclusively as symbols instead of numerals. The eight circles, two lines, and triangle at 12 o'clock are filled with a luminescent material, Chromalight, which emits a blue glow. Even the hands are filled with Chromalight. Other manufacturers use Superluminova, which glows green. Rolex previously used Superluminova, but have discontinued their use of it. Scratch-resistant sapphire glass protects the dial from above. A magnifying Cyclops lens sits atop the date display at 3 o'clock. This lens is a hallmark of a number of other Rolex models, including the Submariner.

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Hostage fabric: Owner given the slip
When Ann Clark decided to have slipcovers made for her new leather couch, she headed up 29 North to Fabrics Unlimited and began looking for material. She also asked the staff whom they'd recommend to make the covers, and was given two names. One was someone she knew. Reasoning that it might be better to keep friendship out of the deal, she called the other woman, Janice Coppa, and they arranged to meet.
Coppa measured the couch, and they headed to Fabrics Unlimited together, where Clark chose a nubby cotton in neutral colors that would be a good alternative to the leather in warm months. She gave the $300 material to Coppa.
Clark saw Coppa once more, when she came back with the pieces she'd cut and, using tape, fitted them to the couch. Then she left, saying the job would take about six weeks to finish. That was in late July.
When more than six weeks had passed, Clark became concerned and claims she began trying to reach Coppa. Phone messages went unanswered, so she called Fabrics Unlimited, got Coppa's address in Gordonsville, and wrote her a letter– but again, there was no reply.
Eventually, Clark says, she got very specific in a message she left on Coppa's answering machine: "I want my fabric back."
Clark had ordered slipcovers not only to extend her decorating options, but, more importantly, to protect the leather from fading in the sun and to shield it from the claws of two kittens she'd adopted. As the months went by and the cats inflicted more and more damage on the couch– which, meanwhile, was getting plenty of sunlight in a living room full of large windows– Clark got more frustrated. Finally, she called me.
After leaving two messages on Coppa's answering machine, I called Fabrics Unlimited and spoke to owner Bill Herndon. Herndon said he'd known Coppa "for 15 or 20 years," but added that he hadn't heard from her in a while.
As our conversation wound down, his attitude abruptly changed from friendly to hostile when he learned that I intended to quote him. I couldn't understand why that upset him; after all, I had immediately identified myself as a reporter, and he hadn't responded by setting any limits. Besides, all he'd said was that he'd known Coppa for many years but hadn't seen her lately. Why was he so upset? I didn't get the chance to ask.
"If you put something bad in," he suddenly declared, "I'm going to sue you. Bye." Then he hung up on me.
My third attempt to reach Coppa was a success; she immediately declared that Clark was "absolutely right" and added that she regretted not handling the transaction in a more "professional manner."
"Several events happened in my life," she went on to say, including the deaths of her husband and mother and a move from Charlottesville to Gordonsville. Apparently the prospect of contacting Clark grew more daunting the longer it wore on; twice, she claimed, she'd called Clark's number– but, when there was no answer, had hung up without leaving a message.
Coppa said she would contact Clark and either return the fabric or finish the job. As of press time, however, Clark had yet to hear from her. Clark intends to try one last time to get Coppa to respond, and if that fails, she plans to take the matter to small claims (General District) court.
Business transactions such as contracting for draperies and slipcovers can be tricky: If the person you've hired declines to either do the work or return the materials you've paid for, you suffer a double loss. And, as this case proves, even if a person has performed similar work reliably for many years, there's no guarantee that won't change.
If you've figured out a way to structure such transactions so that they're not total leaps of faith, I'd be interested in hearing how.
Do you have a consumer problem or question? Email the Fearless Consumer, write her at 100 Second Street NW, 22902, or call 295-8700 ext. 406.


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Every five minutes a child in this country runs away from home or care
Some are as young as eight. Many have no choice but to go it alone, and take huge risks on the streets – begging or stealing to survive, or resorting to drugs and alcohol. Many are groomed by adults who will later exploit and harm them. This is the reality for 100,000 children who go missing every year.
One in six young runaways end up sleeping rough, one in eight resort to begging or stealing to survive and one in 12 are hurt or harmed as a direct result of running away.
We believe that every child who has become a young runaway deserves to be protected through a national safety net of support.
What is Make Runaways Safe?
Without appropriate help, runaway teenagers are highly vulnerable and at risk of substance abuse, sexual exploitation and homelessness. They need to know that there are people who can help them and services that they can turn to.
As part of our Make Runaways Safe campaign, former young runaways told us what they would most like to see from those charged with protecting them. In 2012, they created the Runaways' Charter, a clear code for agencies with a duty to protect children who run away or go missing from home and care.
We ran the Make Runaways Safe campaign to call on agencies to protect the 100,000 young people who run away each year.
Campaign success
Thank you to more than 7500 supporters who joined this campaign. With your support, we achieved:
- More than 40 local authorities signed up to the Runaways' Charter and committed to making changes to protect young people who run away from home.
- Changes to government guidance which now ensures that all councils will have to offer young runaways a mandatory 'return interview', to identify and help provide the support they need. This is an important change and a powerful tool to protect young runaways.
See local support for runaways
We asked councils across England to sign up to the Runaways' Charter. Co-authored by young people, the charter sets out guidance for how young people want to be treated when they run away from home or care.
How to use the map
To find whether your council signed the Runaways' Charter, click any area on the map. A small pop-up window should appear with the name of the council and a notice about whether your council has signed the charter.
You can also zoom in or out using the tool on the left side of the map.
Resources for parents, local authorities and more
We want to ensure that all local authorities are equipped with the right information to provide the right support for runaways in their area.
We've developed a series of resources for:
- Local safeguarding leads
- Local authority commissioners
- Professionals working with children and young people
- Parents and carers
- Children and young people
Find our downloadable resources for protecting young runaways.
You can also learn about spotting the signs of child sexual explotation (CSE).


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Cases of West Nile virus infection have been identified in most U.S. states, with Texas experiencing the worst outbreak since the virus first emerged, the CDC reported Wednesday.
As of Tuesday morning, the agency had received reports of 1,993 human cases, including 1,069 cases of neuroinvasive disease and 87 deaths, up from 1,590 cases and 65 deaths last week, Lyle Petersen, MD, MPH, director of the CDC's division of vector-borne infectious diseases, said on a conference call with reporters.
That is the highest number of cases reported through the first week of September since the virus was first identified in the U.S. in 1999, Petersen said. He added that the count will probably continue to rise into October, even if the epidemic peaked in August, as has been seen in previous outbreaks.
This year, the virus has been found in humans, birds, or mosquitoes in all of the 48 contiguous states and has infected humans in 44 states and the District of Columbia.
Hardest hit is Texas, which accounts for about 45% of the CDC's total case count. The Texas Department of State Health Services is reporting 1,013 human infections, including 495 cases of neuroinvasive disease and 40 deaths.
That makes this year the worst for West Nile cases in Texas since the virus appeared in the state in 2002, according to David Lakey, MD, commissioner of the state agency. The highest number of neuroinvasive cases previously was 449 in 2003.
There are some indications that West Nile activity may be waning in certain parts of the state, although it is still too early to know for sure, Lakey said.
Petersen provided some tips for avoiding mosquito bites, including using insect repellent, wearing long sleeves and pants at dawn and dusk, installing or repairing screens on windows and doors, using air conditioning, emptying standing water from outdoor spaces, and supporting local mosquito control programs.


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COSTA MESA – Yarn bombing, urban crochet and guerrilla knitting all are the same thing, really – knitting for the natural world or even crafting a giant cozy for a full-size car.
A form of hipster graffiti if you've haven't asked permission first or an expression of art if you have, yarn bombing has taken off across the world, with knitters in Russia, Europe and the Middle East applying purl one and stitch two to telephone poles, trees, bicycle racks, potholes, banisters and more.
The Charging Bull on Wall Street even got a pink and purple cozy in 2010.
A lively group from the knitting club at Newton's Yarn Country in Anaheim joined knitting needles to yarn bomb the Orange County Fair on Sunday, piecing together cozies for the fair pig and barnyard cow.
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By the end of the day, they plan to have various fair benches embellished.
For most of the group, this is their first experience at yarn bombing, but pro Judy Ruisaile, visiting from Pennsylvania, has experience with some serious guerrilla knitting.
"I've done trees, hotels and even a room at a bed-and-breakfast I stayed in," she said. Ruisaile was part of the team that created the Crochet Coral Reef project, reproducing reef environments with yarn to raise awareness about their health.
Other first time bombers working on the cow were Marcia King, Anthony Pham, Patty Nance and Diana Rishel, who said, "If I could knit stealthily, that would be a lot of fun."
Group knitting was only open Sunday, but if you're the avid type and would like to get involved with a group, check out Knots of Love in the Home Arts building, where groups are knitting and crocheting caps for cancer patients. Or visit KnotsofLove.org.
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Top Two Myths And Facts About German Shepherd Dog Training
Knowing that there are still some myths prevailing about dog training, I thought of publishing this post on Facts and Myths About Training German Shepherds.
Read on…
Myth: Some German Shepherd Dogs are genetically stubborn, which makes them tough to be trained well.
Fact: Admitted that some GSDs may be more dominant than others, but that doesn't mean that they cannot be easily trained. There is no suit-to-all dog training strategy. All dogs are different – and this is universally true and natural – just like human kids. Something that can work good for my puppy may not work at all for yours. A professional dog trainer tries to understand the specific traits that make a dog more dominant than his/her mates. As soon as he understands them he would be able manage the dog efficiently. Rewarding a dog for any good thing he does and refusing a reward for undesirable things will work good for almost all dog while training. But dominant dogs usually have tendency to disobey command. It is important for a trainer to establish the alpha membership (leadership) more effectively and train him/her in a separate area - away from animals and people. A dominant subject usually requires more time to learn tricks – but it's not impossible.
Same problem may arise with puppies that are born with overly high prey drive. Very high prey drive will result in higher degree of distraction, which compromises the puppy's attention paying ability, making the training little tougher. However, even in this case training is not impossible. An "All-Positive" GSD trainer will try to avoid environmental distraction elements while training. Usually the distraction elements for a high prey drive puppy are anything that moves – may be a butterfly, a passing by animals, a flying bird and even the weathered/ falling leaves from the trees. So now you know what it primarily needs for you to train a dog that are genetically dominant or having overly high prey instinct.
Myth: Using "food as a reward" while training your German Shepherd may not be the right option, because the dogs has to finally act only on command and without treat as a reward.
Fact: Although many GSD owners still believe that their dog may become completely dependent on food to act, but this is a prevailing and most common myth about dog training. Food based reward training is a part of a very new concept, called Motivation Dog Training. Most of unsuccessful "food based reward training" results have occurred because of the fact that the trainers have been unsuccessful in using the food correctly while training a dog. Many dog trainers were noticed using the food as a bribe for an action to be performed. The rule is to use the food as a reward for the dog's successful accomplishments of an action, which will motivate the animal to repeat his good work and NOT to wait for the treat (primarily) and work (secondarily).
Another most important step is to make the dog's habit of getting the food reward eventually fade out, simultaneously letting the dog know that he will be highly praised for all of his great works.
Without applying the Motivation Dog Training rule properly please do not expect your German Shepherd puppy to work for you on command and not for food. Here is a great read about the basic rules of food based motivation dog training.
Most important of all... your dog should never be left with a novice hand for training. Newbies and amateur dog trainers can be a real nightmare. Without professional knowledge Reinforcement Training can Severely Backfire. Read more...


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I've gotta be honest…Craig Smith probably wouldn't have been my first
choice of Wolves players to preview for this upcoming season. He does the
dirty work…and we all value the superstars over the cleanup crew,
Well, with that said, Craiggers deserves some serious respect.
A scene at last week's Wolves/Bucks game really impressed me- Craig
was matched up against Yi Jianlian. Yi happens to be five inches taller
than Craig. Despite the height disparity, though, Craig absolutely
manhandled Yi…Craig did a phenomenal job of boxing out Yi, and his defensive
effort against the rookie was spectacular.
Welcome to the NBA, Yi Jianlian. You just got eaten alive by the
Cookie Monster.
Entering his second year in the league, it's already clear that Craig was a fantastic pick at 36th overall in the 2006 NBA Draft. Is he on the short side for
his position? Yeah. Does he have the skillset that the superstars
at power forward have? Nope. Despite these flaws, though, Craig is
an invaluable piece of the Timberwolves roster.
I don't know how he does it, but Craig always seems to be in exactly the
right place at the right time. Especially on the offensive boards…Craig
is in the perfect position for offensive rebounds so frequently throughout the
course of a match, that it's obvious he has an intuition for basketball that
most other players can only dream of.
Not only does Craig make a great impact on the offensive boards, but he
doesn't take a lot of bad shots (although he doesn't have much of a range, to
say the least), and he is extremely powerful on the low block. Great
upper body strength, for sure.
Most importantly, though, he has heart. He wants to improve.
He's a hard worker on the defensive end of the floor, and can hold his own
against guys that have a considerable height advantage over him. And I'd
bet that as he gains more experience in the NBA, he'll emerge as a clubhouse
What are Craig's flaws? Well, as mentioned, the obvious ones are his
physical limitations…he's only 6'7", and some commentators say he's a
bit pudgy. I certainly noticed his tendency to get into foul
trouble last season, he's pretty ineffective outside of the low-post on
offense, and he shot a paltry 62% from the free throw line in his rookie campaign. Also, let's just say that he shouldn't be handling the ball too much.
But that's what makes Craig so special. Despite his shortcomings, he's
a guy who the Wolves should be keeping around for many seasons to come.
This year, I'm hoping to see Craig make a greater impact on the
defensive boards…the Wolves will need to compensate for the lost rebounding brought
about by the KG trade. Gomsey and Big Al
will certainly help recoup much of that rebounding, but I'm looking for Craig
to step up his efforts, as well. I'm
also looking forward to Craig receiving a sizable increase in
minutes. Last year, Witt gave Craiggers 18.7
minutes per game, and the man deserves more playing time than that!
There may not be a big market for Craig Smith jerseys. Or posters.
Or bobbleheads But the Cookie Monster is undoubtedly becoming a
fan-favorite in the Twin Cities.


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SafetyChoice MedMinder Medication Management
The Smart Way to Remember Medication Doses
An in-home caregiver can be instrumental in reminding clients to take medications, but what about when your loved one is alone? We have developed a home care device to help. Comfort Keepers SafetyChoice MedMinder uses smart technology to alert clients when it is time to take a medication dose. This wireless pillbox l ocks to keep medications safe and secure, and unlocks only when it is appropriate. Because it is connected to cellular, it can be easily programmed and managed online via a secure portal.
The device senses if the client has not taken a scheduled medication dose and will send a text or email notification to the client or in-home caregiver.
Clients can also log into the secure Internet portal to track when they have taken medications and when or how often they have missed doses. This means they can easily keep their doctors informed, taking the guesswork out of medication management.
Easy to program, fill, and manage, the SafetyChoice MedMinder is the smart way to remind clients to take their medications. Home helpers like this make everyone's job easier.
SafetyChoice MedMinder Features:
- MedMinder's (JON model) audio and visual reminders are ideal for hearing impaired or low-vision subscribers.
- The cellular-based unit requires no landline or Internet connection.
- The unit has 28 compartments that can hold 7 days of medications with up to 4 doses a day, or 14 days with up to 2 doses a day.
- Each compartment is large enough to fit up to 12 pills.
- A secure portal keeps activity records for easy viewing and tracking by the client or caregiver.
Comfort Keepers also offers the SafetyChoice TabSafe medication system, which connects to the monitoring center via a landline. Contact your Comfort Keepers office for more information on this and other SafetyChoice home care products.
Home Safety Assessment
Comfort Keepers can provide an in-home assessment to evaluate your safety needs and recommend the right medical alert products. Comfort Keepers will visit the home, work with the family to determine the specific needs, and demonstrate how these home medical alert devices can help seniors stay safe and independent at home.